2022-04-04: News Headlines

Shane Quinn (2022-04-04). The Alarming Rise of Ukraine's Neo-Nazi MPs Since the 2014 "Pro-democracy Revolution" globalresearch.ca Over elapsing time from the February 2014 US-instituted "pro-democracy revolution", an ever expanding group of neo-Nazis has been elected to office in the Ukrainian parliament. Over the past five years of what the Washington Post calls "fledgling democracy"

____ (2022-04-04). Georgian PM faces internal, external attacks for striving to keep nation out of war. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Civil GeorgiaApril 3, 2022 Garibashvili Makes Controversial Remarks on Ukraine, Again The Georgian Prime Minister also vowed to "do everything" to avoid war in Georgia. "We want peace, stability and development, this is what our country needs today, no one needs war, and…any patriotic government must do everything to help the country and its people …

rqorinoco (2022-04-04). The U.S. empire uses engineered destabilization to delay its full demise. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Mar 30, 2022 | When it comes to the decline of U.S. hegemony, there are two sides to the story, one hopeful and the other bleak. One pertains to all of the ways that the empire's power is unambiguously diminishing, and to how this is opening the potential for workers democracy to spread to every part of the world. To how Washington has been unable to use its fascist Ukrainian proxy to crush the independence of the Donbass peoples, how Washington's subversion efforts in places like Hong Kong have failed, how the 2019 coup in Bolivia has been reversed, and other such positive developments. Th…

____ (2022-04-04). Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen surges in French presidential polls. wsws.org The election of a neo-fascist president is a real possibility, as a result of the militaristic and fascistic evolution of the entire French political establishment.

____ (2022-04-04). Stumping for "America First" Republicans, Trump holds campaign rally in Macomb County, Michigan. wsws.org The threat of fascistic violence permeated the rally, with frequent calls from the crowd to "lock up" Trump's political opponents, including Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessell and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

Yasmin Abusayma (2022-04-04). My grandmother's Nakba nightmare. electronicintifada.net Uprooted as children, older Palestinians still wish to return home.

Staff (2022-04-04). March in Paris supports Palestinian resistance and Georges Abdallah. samidoun.net At the call of the Coordination to Support the Palestine Resistance in Paris, France, a march in support of the Palestinian resistance was organized from Barbès to République on Saturday, 2 April. A crowd displaying Palestinian flags and numerous banners came out despite the Parisian cold to affirm their support for the Palestinian people and their …

Staff (2022-04-04). Georges Abdallah's statement for 2 April day of action. samidoun.net The following statement was released by Georges Abdallah on 2 April 2022 as part of the international day of action for his release that coincided with his 71st birthday. Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine, has been jailed in France since 1984 despite being eligible for release since 1999. Georges Abdallah is part …

Angela (2022-04-04). Sunday 4/3: A Conversation with Jamal Taslaq, Palestinian High Couture Designer. indybay.org

Staff (2022-04-04). International day of action mobilizes for freedom for Georges Abdallah. samidoun.net On Saturday, 2 April — Georges Abdallah's 71st birthday — people across France and around the world joined in an international day of action to demand the freedom of the Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine imprisoned in France for over 37 years. Abdallah, the longest-held political prisoner in Europe, has been eligible for release …

____ (2022-04-04). Democrats reject calls to impeach far-right Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. wsws.org Text messages implicating Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in Trump's January 6 conspiracy have exposed flagrant judicial misconduct by her husband, who voted to block access to documents by the congressional committee investigating the coup plot in which his own wife participated.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-04-04). Pakistan PM Khan's fate to be decided by top court Monday. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 04 (MNA) — Pakistan's supreme court is expected to decide the fate of embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan, following a day of political turmoil, media reported on Monday.

Editor2 (2022-04-03). Russia-Ukraine Conflict Highlights Racist Double Standard in the West. orinocotribune.com By Wu Chaolan — Mar 21, 2022 | The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has garnered widespread attention across the globe. The wall-to-wall coverage and outpouring of reactions to the Russia-Ukraine conflict from the West has raised eyebrows at its double standard toward other humanitarian crises, which has unsheathed flagrant racist and biased attitudes toward the value of non-white lives that also matter. | CBS News senior correspondent in Kyiv Charlie D'Agata, for instance, has faced a widespread backlash due to his discriminatory comments on the Ukraine crisis: "This isn't a place, with all due respect, like…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-03). Nazis in Ukraine: Seeing Through the Fog of the Information War. libya360.wordpress.com Gabriel Rockhill Participants of an annual event in honor of Stepan Bandera march through Kyiv, Ukraine on Jan. 1, 2021. (Genya Savilou/AFP) On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin undertook what he referred to as a "special military operation … to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine." Western bourgeois media immediately decried these stated goals, regularly repeating that the allegations of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-03). CIA Trained the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and Has Chosen Ukraine as the Birthplace of the New "Global White Supremacist" Terror Threat. libya360.wordpress.com Whitney Webb As the conflict between Ukraine and Russia continues to escalate and dominate the world's attention, the increasing evidence that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is and has been working to create and arm an insurgency in the country has received considerably little attention considering its likely consequences. This is particularly true given…

Anonymous103 (2022-04-03). Ukrainian Soldiers Carried Out Execution Of Russian POWs (Photos). southfront.org emptyOn April 3, the Ukrainian media exploded with alleged Ukrainian victories in the Kiev region, which was left by Russian forces a few days ago. Various fake videos were made in the region in an attempt to balme Russian soldiers in war crimes. The artificial hysteria supported by unprofessionally staged videos is aimed at "balancing" the numerous reports of war crimes of Ukrainian nazis confirmed by civilians from Mariupol, the Donbass region and other war-torn regions. | On April 3, a new horri…

_____ (2022-04-03). Malvinas 40 Years: It's Time To End Colonialism. popularresistance.org Every April 2, we Argentines pay tribute to the compatriots who fought valiantly for the recovery of the exercise of sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, other archipelagos of the South Atlantic and their corresponding maritime spaces. | On the 40th anniversary of the heroic deed carried out by our young men and women, the memory and recognition of their dedication must go hand in hand with a firm commitment to continue fighting for the cause for which many of them gave their lives. The permanent increase of the military presence and the refusal during these four decades of the United Kingdom to resume the dial…

_____ (2022-04-03). Will Biden Shoot Himself In The Foot To Impose Sanctions On Russia? popularresistance.org On Thursday, President Joe Biden ordered the largest release ever from the US emergency oil reserve in a futile attempt to bring down gasoline prices that have soared to record levels following the Russo-Ukraine War. Starting in May, the United States will release 1 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil for six months from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), amounting to 180 million barrels in total, which is equivalent to only two days of the global demand. | Invoking the fabled trope of American patriotism, Biden urged the consumers not to hesitate from paying twice the amount while filling gas tanks in…

Tamara Nassar (2022-04-03). Three Palestinian resistance fighters killed in Israeli attack. electronicintifada.net Israeli fire kills 29 Palestinians since the beginning of the year.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2022-04-03). Palestine in Pictures: March 2022. electronicintifada.net A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.

Cortney Sanders (2022-04-03). States Legislators Can Usher In an Antiracist, Equitable Recovery. Here's How. truthout.org As state legislators finalize their budgets for the year ahead, they should pursue tax and budget policies that align with Target aid to those most in need due to the pandemic and economic crises. | Advance short- and long-term antiracist and equitable policies to dismantle racial, ethnic, gender, and economic i…

scorinoco (2022-04-03). No Peace Can be Achieved Without Lifting the Siege, Says Yemen. orinocotribune.com The Supreme Political Council of Yemen has denounced the Saudi ceasefire without the full lifting of the siege on the Yemeni people. | The Supreme Political Council of Yemen stated on Wednesday, March 30, that no peace can be achieved without ending the "The Yem…

teleSUR, SH, JCM (2022-04-03). Costa Rica acude a las urnas para elegir a su nuevo presidente. telesurtv.net "A partir de este momento abren las juntas receptoras de votos. Acérquese a su centro y vote", dijo en Twitter el Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE).

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